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Mr Williams, UND
Secretary of State's breakfast with Perez de Cuellar:
23 May
The Secretary of State had breakfast with Perez de Cuellar this morning. Mig Goulding was present on the Secretary General's side, and Sir J Fretwell and I on our side.
Cyprus
The Secretary General said that his special representative was active, and would be having further meetings today in Cyprus which he hoped would be helpful. The Secretary of State said that we would do all we could to help. The Secretary General said that there was a prospect of meetings between the parties in July, but he was uncertain whether the incident over the weekend with the Austrian soldiers would affect the prospect. Mr Goulding said that Denktash was extremely upset and was demanding that the Austrians must leave, and that there should be a status of forces agreement with the TRNC. This was just not on. The Secretary General said that it was likely that the Austrians would be moved to another location if somebody else could be persuaded to take on the duties they were at present carrying out.
The Secretary General went on that he was being accused of backing away from the proposals which he had put forward earlier. What people failed to understand was that there was nothing sacred about the texts he had put forward. They were only his ideas, which were subject to modification in discussion with the parties. The Secretary of State said that the timescale the Secretary General was offering looked the most realistic one available. He asked about UNFICYP costs. The Secretary General seemed slightly vague about this, but Mr Goulding said that the money which the Russians had produced was entirely for UNIFIL: the Russians were unwilling for any of it to be spent on UNFICYP. The recent lobbying of Security Council members on the proposition that contributions be put on an assessment basis had not gone well. The Secretary General now planned to repeat the proposal at a senior level with some of the senior Ministers who would be visiting New York for UNSSOD. The main obstacles were the French, Russians and Japanese, though he thought it was right for the moment to concentrate on the Americans and Germans. The Turkish Government were most unhelpful in lobbying against the proposal.
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